Written questions

3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Integrated Activity Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2020 to Question 106362 on Overseas Aid, how many of the 16 projects delivered under the Integrated Activity Fund and covered by Overseas

18 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to make free antibody tests available for key workers in supermarkets.

18 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the NHS Trusts that have been successful in securing seed funding for the further eight schemes in the Health Infrastructure Plan 2.

18 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish an updated (a) multi-year capital settlement and (b) Health Infrastructure Plan.

17 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Health Infrastructure Plan 3 consultation will begin; and what criteria his Department will use to assess funding applications.

17 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he will publish details of the NHS Learning Support Fund’s regional incentive allowance for students starting their course in September 2020.

17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Gambling: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on teaching the risks of gambling in schools.

17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Gambling: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of teaching about the risks of gambling and gambling-related harm in schools.

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cricket: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of (a) structural and (b) institutional racism in professional cricket.

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Sports: Governing Bodies

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when Sport England plans to publish the findings of the joint review of code for sports governance.

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cricket: Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using a similar initiative to Kick it Out to tackle racism in cricket.

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Retail Trade: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what criteria were used to define essential retail in relation to the guidance issued on the additional public health restrictions which came into force on 5 November 2020 in Engl

16 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions his Department has had with Bounce Back Loan Scheme lenders on access to credit for businesses that have business accounts with other lenders.

12 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including couples in long-term relationships on the list of people able to form a social bubble where they are unable to do so following the

12 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of November 2020 covid-19 restrictions on non-cohabiting partners.

12 Nov 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flowers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has for the UK to become self-sufficient in the growth of fresh flowers in the event of the UK not reaching an agreement with the EU on a future relationship.

12 Nov 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agricultural Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of border checks on goods arriving from the EU after the transition period on the quality of (a) perishable goods and (b) fresh cut

11 Nov 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flowers: Import Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to support fresh flower sellers in the event that tariffs are applied to the flower industry after the transition period.

11 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to extend the eligibility of the Self Employed Income Support Scheme to people who first submitted tax returns in 2019-20.

11 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Infrastructure and Transport: North of England

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to provide additional financial support to new infrastructure and transport links in the North of England to support the UK economy in the event that the transition period ends without an agreement

11 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with train operating companies on refunding rail tickets purchased before the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown was imposed.

11 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria were used to define a permitted reason for the purposes of an overnight stay in the UK during the November 2020 covid-19 lockdown; and if he will make a statement.

10 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of universal credit claimants who would be affected by the reintroduction of the minimum income floor in (a) the Barnsley Central constituency, (b) the Sheffield

10 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Self-employed

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential economic effect on self-employed workers claiming universal credit of the reintroduction of the minimum income floor.

10 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to expand the availability of the flu vaccine in England to non-priority groups.

10 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Transport: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on (a) UK transport infrastructure and (b) the logistics sector of the UK and EU not agreeing a deal on their future relationship by the end of the transition

10 Nov 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to ensure that supply chains for perishable goods are maintained in the event that the UK and EU do not agree a deal on their future relationship by the en

9 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with awarding bodies on ensuring that students who have opted to sit exams in October 2020 will be awarded grades that are consistent with those awarded in (a) summer 2020 and (b) su

9 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

GCE A-level

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with awarding bodies on ensuring that grades awarded to A-level students sitting exams during the autumn 2020 term take into account the atypical number of students sitting those exa

9 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including women with children under the age of 12 months on the list of people permitted to form a social bubble with one other household duri

Source: official written-questions record.